Motivational Quotes

Fear

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Fear

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De